New Door Slab Does Not Match Hinge Configuration

If the door binds on the hinge side the hinges may be too deep.

New door slab does not match hinge configuration.

Let the home depot show you what it takes to hang a new slab door or to replace a damaged one. The easiest way to solve this problem is when installing the door space the jambs off the floor when possible. If the hinges do not match up take the door out and adjust we had to adjust the bottom one down a little. That way we can line everything up to make it work perfectly with our existing jamb.

If the mortise in the jamb is set too close to the stop the door will bind against the stop. If the door binds on the knob side the hinges are too shallow. Chances are that they will be very close to the same size. Mount the hinges on the new door and hang the door.

Open and close the door to find the problem. Measure the width and height of the existing door and check the new slab. Weighing between 50 and 100 pounds a pre hung interior door with a hollow core slab is the lightest pre hung door you can buy. If the hinge leaf fastened to the door is not set fully in the mortise because of paint plaster tape or misalignment the hinges will bind.

Place one of the hinges on the door as if it already was installed on the door. Once the hinges have been installed remove the pin from the new hinges and fit the door into the door frame. Purchase your new door as a slab meaning that it will not have any routes for the hinges or any holes drilled for knobs. Remove the hinge pins and lift the old door out of the frame.

Pre hung doors are heavy and hard to manage. If the door binds and the hinges are secure the problem may be with the hinge mounts. Once you ve finished mortising the hinges set the door upright and bore the lockset holes. Mortise the hinge openings using a chisel and utility knife photo 4.

Place the old door beside the new door and with the hinge sides abutted use clamps to hold the two doors together. This might cause the door to creak or to spring back from a closed position. The most likely cause is that the floor is not perfectly level. When the door is placed directly on the floor and it s not level it causes one side of the door hinge or latch side to be higher than one another.

Slab doors typically do not have a left or right side but if your door clearly has an exterior side the hinge. If the old door was trimmed at the bottom and you were happy with the gap at the floor cut the new door to match. Look for signs of abrasion on the edge of the door and for uneven gaps between the jamb and the door. Mark any top or.

We ll also so you the tools required for this moderately diffi. Resetting the hinges can correct those problems.